(Later that Night) [The 41st Division Encampment]
An ostrich-horse pulled the wagon that Suki and her sisters were on. A metal cage on wheels, really.
They... they had lost. Grossly underestimated their opponent who was much, much more powerful than they had given him credit for. And now, they paid the price for their folly- consigned to be prisoners of war for a brutish and violent giant of a man whose intentions could not be any clearer. It was the absolute worst nightmare for her, who was a Kyoshi Warrior proud of her heritage. Still, it was a miracle that none of them were killed in that engagement. And although an incomplete disaster was a poor miracle to be grateful for, Suki was still thankful for it nonetheless.
She looked to her sisters. At least... they had all been allowed to keep their dignity and were left in the green kimono of their Kyoshi Warrior uniforms rather than prisoner rags which were the norm. Not that it lifted their spirits any more, because no one had spoken a single word since waking up here. Just dejected expressions of the defeated all around.
"I'm sorry." Suki began. "I'm sorry for insisting we leave the island to help with the war effort. I'm sorry for dragging you all with me. I'm sorry for being so pushy about it. I'm sorry for being so selfish!"
Her sisters glanced at each other before nodding. Suddenly, Suki felt herself swept up in a warm embrace.
"There, there. It's not your fault, Suki."
"And we wanted to help the Earth Kingdom too."
"Yeah, not your fault."
"We'll get through this together. Like we always do."
"Sisters Forever, right?"
It took everything in her to not burst into tears over knowing that her sisters didn't blame her for this failure, for their current predicament. But even in that, she failed because the tears just kept flowing.
"We're... we're going to make it out of this alive." Suki sobbed into their arms. "I'll do everything I can to make this right! I promise. I promise!"
Suki didn't know how long they stayed like that- finding comfort in each other's warmth, but every second of it was a second thay she wasn't spending in the outside world. And soon enough, the outside world came to break up their touching moment, their mobile cage stopped moving and a Fire Nation sergeant promptly arrived soon after to open the cage door.
"Kyoshi Warrior Suki?" she stated rather than asked, "Khan is expecting you in his personal quarters now."
She took a deep breath. This was it. She had only one chance to impress him, and her sisters seemed to sense her hesitation as they looked at her with pitying eyes.
"Suki... you don't have to do this."
"But I do. For all our sake." was all she said in return before letting herself be led towards a metal house that was no doubt Khan's.
"Stop." The Fire Nation sergeant said as she grasped Suki's shoulder, and pointed her to a small fountain right by the entrance, "The Khan requires everyone who enters his personal quarters to take off their shoes and wash their hands. He didn't take too kindly to the last one who both tracked mud on his carpets and smeared filth on his books."
The other woman then pointed to a gibbet a short ways away containing a man whose arms and legs ended in burnt stumps.
"A-alright." Suki murmured meekly as she complied- taking off her boots and washing her hands.
She was grateful for the pause before continuing into the moose-lion's den. It gave her time to consider what it would take to keep her promise to them- to convince this Fire Nation warlord to keep her sisters from harm. She wanted to say that she had no idea how to do that, but she knew that she would just be lying to herself. She knew that she had nothing else to bargain with at this point- nothing else that he could consider valuable. She wasn't privy to valuable Earth Kingdom intelligence, nor did she know any Earth Kingdom noble that he could pressure for keeping her hostage. She already knew that- realistically- there was only one way she could influence Khan.
The same thing that all men could be influenced with: her inexperienced, virgin body.
'I'm... I'm sorry, Sokka.'
"The Kyoshi Warrior Suki is entering, sir." the sergeant announced with a knock before swinging the door open for her and her bare feet stepped onto soft carpet as she slipped inside the lantern-lit metal house.
There, Suki was greeted by the sight of books, maps and scrolls of every size and colour laying on every available surface. Some were in stacks almost as tall as her. Others lay open in piles as if someone was reading through all of them at once. At a glance, Suki couldn't figure out what the connections between some of the titles were. How A treatise on Fire Nation metalworking had anything to do with The Great Sartorial Atlas of Earth Kingdom Fabrics was beyond her. There seemed to be no rhyme or reason to it, just a pure frantic pursuit for every scrap of knowledge within reach. And there seated at the back behind a desk that was also covered in books and scrolls was the giant who defeated them in combat: Khan.
She was certain that it was him, but also... she couldn't believe that it was him.
In her imagined scenario, Khan was a balding middle-aged man who would stroke at his beard while leering at her perversely. But the man wearing a loose red robe and sitting behind that desk as he read his book? He wasn't as ugly as she thought he'd be under that helmet. In fact...
The man before her looked regal, handsome, downright heroic even. It was like someone had taken the title 'Proud Prince of the Fire Nation' and made it into a living person. He was fair-skinned... as expected of nobility who didn't need to work all day in the fields or at sea. His hair looked as soft and black as a sea raven's feathers. His strong jawline that seemed sculpted like a monument, and everytime he flipped a page on his book, his loose red robes didn't hide how his thick biceps flexed slightly.
Suki gulped silently as a single horrified realisation dominated her thoughts.
'Oh no... he's hot.'
Green eyes like the finest jade looked up to meet her blue ones.
"Suki." Khan greeted her, and in the privacy of her mind, she whined 'That's... not fair.' Even the sound of his smooth voice saying her name was incredibly arousing. Almost lover-like.
"Khan." She greeted back, voice just a bit more breathy than she would have liked.
"I believe you've figured out what I really want from you now?" He said with a raised brow, "After all, once you really think about it, it's easy to realise that you are only truly valuable for one thing. Cooperate, and you and your sisters will be treated well. Be resistant and I'll just find another group of young warrior-women to take your places."
Normally, that kind of comment would have elicited a swift punch to the nose from a Kyoshi Warrior, but she was doing this for her sisters-in-arms...
"I'll cooperate." She conceded to the humiliation.
"Good." He hummed as he stood up, and Suki stiffened as he stalked around the table towards her. Spirits, he was perfe- tall. He was so tall. She barely reached his muscled chest, his robes loose enough that she had a peek of abs. A large hand cupped her chin with surprising gentleness- tilting her head up so that their eyes could meet again. Her mouth opened slightly as the sudden incomprehensible desire to suckle on his thumb came to her.
... Oh spirits, he's really hot.
"Make yourself comfortable while I search for where I placed my damned tools." His smooth voice purred, and Suki squeezed her thighs together in an attempt to stifle the rising heat she felt linger from between them.
"I understand... master." She whispered, and to her growing shame, her head followed his hand slightly as he pulled away and walked off to a side room- leaving Suki alone in the room.
Hesitantly, with shaking hands, she untied her green kimono and let it slip from her shoulders- the fabric pooling around her bare feet with a soft hush on the carpet... which was soon followed by the soft patter of her plain white bra and panties following suit.
Suki bit her lip as she pushed down the urge to self-consciously cover herself, just keeping her hands to her sides.
This... this was the first time she was ever naked in front of a boy. She had boys from other villages on Kyoshi island fawn over her in the scant times that the villages mingled before, Apparently auburn here was an exotic and attractive quality, and that she had a bigger bust than the other Kyoshi Warriors. But she never had really gotten close enough with a boy before where she'd consider doing something like this. Her body felt so hot that even the warm air of the house felt cold to her. The faint breeze brushing against her stiff pink nipples and... down there as well. She had taken the opportunity to shave herself bare last night in preparation for less forgiving terrain in their journey. But apparently, it will work in her favour tonight as well. Men preferred it clean shaven, right?
Suki had heard that it would hurt thrice-fold more if she was dry. So, she slipped a shy finger down between her legs to try and get her body to respond, But to her half-surprise, she found wetness greeting her. A lot of it actually. How could she be looking forward to this?! But even as she asked herself that, she ran a fingertip across her throbbing little nub and she bit down a moan as she found it the most sensitive it had ever been.
Stupid traitorous body responding to stupid sexy Khan and his stupid sexy body that she wanted to run her tongue all over.
"Alright, I have my things. Let's begin." Khan muttered as he walked in- preoccupied with surveying the contents of a box he was holding.
Gathering all the poise and dignity she had left, Suki spoke with a steady voice. "I'll do whatever you say and accept whatever you would do to me. Just don't touch my sisters."
His jade-green eyes glanced at her quivering, naked body. And she hardened her heart for what was to come next. The image was so vivid that it was like a vision. He... he was going to push her down right then and there, wasn't he? Pin her very virgin body against the carpet with that hard body of his and claim her like a wild animal, slamming his powerful hips down on hers over and over again while grinding his sculpted abs against her belly before breeding her fertile womb with his strong, virile seed until it leaked out of her. All night long.
She ignored the trail of wetness dripping down her inner thigh.
"Ah, I see you actually didn't figure out the one thing you're valuable for: your knowledge." he noted as he sat back down behind his desk, "I want to interview you so that I could write a book about Kyoshi Island."
That brought Suki's world to a screeching halt.
"I'm sorry, but what?"
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